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How SA Water surfs the electricity spot price

May 27, 2015
Twenty-five thousand kilometres of pipeline, $13 billion worth of infrastructure, delivering water to 1.5 million people in a state that’s bigger than Texas*; and where only 4% of the land receives more than 500mm of rain each year. South Australia is Australia’s driest state, and SA Water is a government-owned enterprise focused on maximising its liquid assets—water and cashflow.
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Cédric Philibert: 3 Reasons the Climate Is Right for Renewables

Cedric Philibert International Energy Agency
May 13, 2015

Renewables aren’t just about the climate — they’re also less volatile in terms of cost, unlimited in supply and widely available.

 
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Charles McConnell: Why We Should Use Carbon Technology — Not Carbon Credits

Charles Mcconnell Rice University
May 05, 2015

Rather than feel good initiatives, we should look to technological innovation to help address both climate change and energy security. Carbon capture, utilization and storage holds the potential to help solve both critical needs.

 
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Lorenzo Simonelli: Thinking Like a Tech Startup — Delivering the Next Industrial Era

Lorenzo Simonelli GE
May 04, 2015

In the face of unprecedented global challenges, big companies need to adopt the mindset of  startups — from collaboration to comprehensive problem solving.

 

As Thomas Edison said, “I find out what the world needs. Then I proceed to invent it.” Over 130 years after Edison established GE, invention with practical application remains at the core of everything we do.
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Putting Energy Into Open Innovation

GE Look Ahead
April 24, 2015

Pressure is increasing on the energy sector to tap into the “global brain.”

 
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PNG’s powerful new attraction: View the trailer

April 01, 2015
They came to view the trailer. In February this year, hundreds of people travelled from all over the Papua New Guinean city of Lae, to feel the power of GE’s TM2500 trailer-mounted electricity generator. Dignitaries arrived to take part in the commissioning ceremony.
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The Industrial Internet is Already Changing Our Lives, You Just Don’t Know It Yet

March 19, 2015
In the last 200 years, the world has experienced several waves of innovation. Successful companies learned to navigate these changes and adapt to the changing environment. Today we are on the brink of another thrust of innovation that promises to change the way we do business and interact with the world of industrial machines. It is the rise of the Industrial Internet.
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Charles Feinstein: 3 Breakthroughs That Can Help Bring Power to Over a Billion People

Charles Feinstein World Bank
March 09, 2015

Innovation in energy storage, smart grids and mini-grids hold the potential of improving access to power for billions of people around the world.

 
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Amy Myers Jaffe: How to Beat OPEC — Take the Highway to Natural Gas-Powered Trucking

Amy Myers Jaffe University Of California Davis
March 02, 2015

With OPEC defending its oil market share, the U.S. should lock in the advantages of a healthy natural gas sector. Piloting corridors for LNG-fueled trucking would be a promising start.

 
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The renewables climate

February 18, 2015
What is putting some countries ahead of others in the renewable-energy game? As Australia’s RET sits stalled at the curb, we ask Peter Cowling, GE’s general manager of renewable sales in the Asia Pacific region for his informed take. Who on this fast-warming, slow-cooking planet is getting it right?
GEreports: What makes some countries better at uptake of renewables than others?

Peter: Typically, without a carbon price renewables are more expensive than fossil fuels, and therefore they need policy support.
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